USA breaks with G7 on climate, development banks - statement

Posted - June 17 201706:21

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According to a Japanese official, Pruitt said the USA will make efforts to curb emissions as a signatory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - the precursor to the Paris accord - and explained that the U.S.is not against taking measures to prevent global warming. Grass covers the round table where environment ministers sit at the opening of a two-day G7 summit on the environment, in Bologna, Italy, Sunday, June 11, 2017.

And with the top-down climate approach now dead on arrival here in the USA, the bottom-up alternatives are getting a lot more attention.

Joining other G7 environment chiefs at talks in Italy, French minister Nicolas Hulot said United States allies were determined not to let Trump's controversial climate stance "poison" cooperation on other ecological issues, and said the world could work around the United States position, even though it is a damaging one.

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Ms. McKenna was asked about a report in the German news magazine Der Spiegel on June 9 that said Mr. Trudeau had suggested to Ms. Merkel in a telephone call that all mentions of the Paris agreement be struck from a planned G20 statement on climate change as a way to garner Mr. Trump's support.

"Cathy McMorris Rodgers posted her statement regarding President Trumps decision to leave the Paris climate accord on her Web page: "... That group seems to be giving credence to the notion that Trump's pull out won't affect USA emissions much.

Instead, the US was mentioned in a footnote touting its goals of a "strong" economy and "healthy" environment, and which implied it had already met climate goals.

"Mary Barra's participation on the President's Strategy and Policy Forum provides GM a seat at an important table to contribute to a constructive dialogue about key policy issues", the company said. The real driver behind dropping US emissions has been the shale boom, which has unlocked vast quantities of cheap shale gas that has displaced coal as the country's dominant source of energy.

"We can not allow one nation to derail what 190 other nations are happy to do", he said. To meet the carbon-dioxide emissions targets, the United States would have to significantly cut back its use of traditional energy resources, including oil and natural gas, hurting the economies of many Midwestern and Western states.

The Paris accord is aimed at capping the increase in global temperatures at two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.

Under the pact, the United States - the world's second biggest carbon emitter behind China - had committed to reduce its emissions by 26-28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025.

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